The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that prosecutions of honest services fraud, as the Boston Globe reports, “should be used only to prosecute cases involving bribery and kickback schemes.”

That’s mother’s milk to belegaled former Massachusetts House Speaker Sal DiMasi, at least according to his lawyer.

Thomas R. Kiley, the Boston lawyer who represents DiMasi, said he was heartened by the Supreme Court ruling because it narrowed the honest fraud services law “to its core.’’ The ruling, he said, makes it clear that it is not enough for prosecutors to accuse a public official of having a conflict of interest and not disclosing it.

Yeah, except for this inconvenient fact:

DiMasi is accused of getting kickbacks for steering state contracts to a Burlington software firm.

Kickbacks, as in: Honest services fraud, Supreme Court definition.

But that’s not the most depressing part for DiMasi.

The most depressing part is that he wasn’t mentioned when the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal called the roll of high-profile honest service frauds, from Jeffrey Skilling to Conrad Black to Rod Blagojevich.

Sorry, Sal. From a national standpoint, you’re still just a cheap grifter.